Michela Wongs Sachbücher tauchen tief in die Komplexität des heutigen Afrikas ein und machen sie sowohl für die breite Öffentlichkeit als auch für Fachleute zugänglich. Ihre Schriften werden für ihre scharfsinnige Untersuchung der politischen und sozialen Landschaften des Kontinents gelobt und sezieren Themen wie Korruption und die Suche nach Gerechtigkeit mit dem scharfen Blick einer Journalistin für Details. Wongs erzählerischer Stil ist fesselnd und zieht die Leser in das Herz afrikanischer Kämpfe. Ihre Bücher sind eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für alle, die die komplexen Realitäten des Kontinents verstehen wollen.
AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 A new book from the award winning author of In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz,Do Not Disturb explores the controversial career of Paul Kagame and the legacy of the Rwandan genocide
The debut novel by a British writer with nearly two decades of African experience - a compelling courtroom drama and a gritty, aromatic evocation of place, inspired by recent events. British lawyer Paula Shackleton is mourning a lost love when a small man in a lemon-coloured suit accosts her over breakfast in a Boston hotel. Winston Peabody represents the African state of North Darrar, embroiled in a border arbitration case with its giant neighbour. He needs help with the hearings in The Hague, Paula needs to forget the past. She flies to the state's capital determined to lose herself in work, but soon discovers that even jobs taken with the purest intentions can involve moral compromise. Taking testimony in scorching refugee camps, delving into the colonial past, she becomes increasingly uneasy about her role. Budding friendships with a scarred former rebel and an idealistic young doctor whittle away at her pose of sardonic indifference, until Paula finds herself taking a step no decent lawyer should ever contemplate. Michela Wrong has been writing about Africa for two decades. In this taut legal thriller, rich with the Horn of Africa's colours and aromas, she probes the motives underlying Western engagement with the continent, questioning the value of universal justice and exploring how history itself is forged. Above all her first novel is the story of a young woman's anguished quest for redemption.
When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one morning on the doorstep of her London flat, it was clear something had gone very wrong in a country regarded until then as one of Africa's few budding success stories. John's tale is the story of how a brave man came to make a lonely decision with huge ramifications
One small East African country embodies the battered history of the continent: patronised by colonialists, riven by civil war, confused by Cold War manoeuvring, proud, colorful, with Africa's best espresso and worst rail service. Michela Wrong brilliantly reveals the contradictions and comedy, past and present, of Eritrea.
Wrong untersucht, wie die korrupte Herrschaft des Diktators Mobutu Sese Seko sein Land in den Ruin trieb.